Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 637 343 796
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.97% 12.18% 13.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.45% 41.28% 46.55%
Number of salaries quoted 259 283 716
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,811
25th Percentile £29,375 £32,267 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,701 831 1,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.63% 29.51% 28.16%
Number of salaries quoted 730 626 1,458
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,563 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,119 £75,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -3 155 £48,000 +12.28% 44
Cambridgeshire +3 137 £60,100 +20.20% 31
Hertfordshire -22 113 £60,000 +9.09% 65
Suffolk +27 94 £57,000 +14.00% 26
Norfolk +1 88 £60,000 +84.43% 27
Bedfordshire +13 48 £14,000 -73.58% 21
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 54 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.10%) WordPress
6 5 (0.78%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 86 (13.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.41%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.78%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (22.76%) Power Platform
2 122 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (17.58%) Azure AI
4 86 (13.50%) AWS
5 75 (11.77%) Entra ID
6 39 (6.12%) PowerApps
7 36 (5.65%) Power Automate
8 34 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
9 32 (5.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (4.08%) OneDrive
12 25 (3.92%) GCP
13 19 (2.98%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (2.98%) Snowflake
14 17 (2.67%) GitHub
14 17 (2.67%) SaaS
15 15 (2.35%) IaaS
16 10 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 10 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (1.41%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.11%) Firewall
2 25 (3.92%) VPN
3 22 (3.45%) DNS
4 18 (2.83%) WAN
5 15 (2.35%) DHCP
6 14 (2.20%) TCP/IP
7 13 (2.04%) LAN
8 10 (1.57%) Internet
9 8 (1.26%) Wireless
10 7 (1.10%) Broadband
11 6 (0.94%) Network Security
11 6 (0.94%) SAN
12 5 (0.78%) DMZ
13 4 (0.63%) VLAN
13 4 (0.63%) WLAN
14 3 (0.47%) SSL
15 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.31%) VoIP
15 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
16 1 (0.16%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (21.04%) Power BI
2 92 (14.44%) Tableau
3 38 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.26%) MySQL
8 7 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.94%) Looker
9 6 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.47%) Big Data
11 3 (0.47%) Redis
11 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (1.88%) Git
2 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.94%) JIRA
3 6 (0.94%) MLflow
4 2 (0.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) JMeter
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
5 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 376 (59.03%) Social Skills
2 68 (10.68%) Finance
3 25 (3.92%) Law
4 24 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (1.88%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.57%) Multimedia
8 8 (1.26%) Marketing
9 6 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.94%) Retail
10 5 (0.78%) Publishing
11 4 (0.63%) Banking
11 4 (0.63%) Legal
11 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.47%) Advertising
13 2 (0.31%) Police
14 1 (0.16%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (28.26%) Analyst
2 172 (27.00%) Junior
3 168 (26.37%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (13.34%) Security Analyst
5 84 (13.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 84 (13.19%) Data Analyst
5 84 (13.19%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (13.19%) Junior Security Analyst
6 67 (10.52%) Developer
7 63 (9.89%) IT Support
8 60 (9.42%) Ethical Hacker
9 51 (8.01%) Senior
10 37 (5.81%) Network Engineer
11 36 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (5.49%) Architect
12 35 (5.49%) IT Engineer
13 32 (5.02%) Support Engineer
14 29 (4.55%) Lead
14 29 (4.55%) Software Developer
15 27 (4.24%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.32%) CSS
2 42 (6.59%) HTML
3 34 (5.34%) .NET
4 27 (4.24%) .NET Core
5 23 (3.61%) JSON
6 22 (3.45%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (2.98%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (2.98%) SPFx
8 17 (2.67%) REST
9 13 (2.04%) jQuery
10 11 (1.73%) React
11 10 (1.57%) SOAP
12 8 (1.26%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.10%) ASP.NET Core
13 7 (1.10%) Kafka
14 6 (0.94%) LangChain
14 6 (0.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.42%) Cyberattack
2 31 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (1.88%) Onboarding
4 10 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.26%) Clustering
5 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.10%) Robotics
6 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (0.94%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.94%) PKI
7 6 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.78%) Blog
8 5 (0.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.56%) Windows
2 53 (8.32%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (1.57%) Linux
4 10 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.41%) Android
6 6 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.78%) VMS
8 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (33.28%) Cybersecurity
2 155 (24.33%) AI
3 137 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (19.78%) Mentoring
5 63 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (9.73%) Agile
7 60 (9.42%) Ethical Hacking
8 54 (8.48%) DevOps
9 51 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (6.91%) CI/CD
11 40 (6.28%) Analytics
12 37 (5.81%) Computer Science
13 35 (5.49%) Machine Learning
14 34 (5.34%) Technical Leadership
15 32 (5.02%) Roadmaps
16 30 (4.71%) Data Modelling
17 28 (4.40%) ERP
17 28 (4.40%) Project Management
17 28 (4.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 27 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 172 (27.00%) SQL
2 152 (23.86%) Python
3 68 (10.68%) C#
4 45 (7.06%) JavaScript
5 44 (6.91%) PowerShell
6 26 (4.08%) PHP
7 23 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.35%) Java
9 12 (1.88%) C++
10 9 (1.41%) R
11 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.78%) Bash
13 2 (0.31%) Bicep
13 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 306 (48.04%) Azure Certification
2 86 (13.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 85 (13.34%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (9.42%) CEH
5 55 (8.63%) Degree
6 40 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (5.81%) Security Cleared
9 33 (5.18%) CCNA
10 29 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
11 26 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (3.61%) SC Cleared
13 18 (2.83%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.94%) CCNP
17 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
19 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.83%) GDPR
2 16 (2.51%) QA
3 15 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.57%) GRC
4 10 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.26%) NIST
6 6 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 5 (0.78%) JSP 440
7 5 (0.78%) NCSC
7 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.63%) SLA
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 81 (12.72%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.35%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.94%) Docker
5 6 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 34 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (2.51%) Terraform
3 14 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.10%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.63%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Nessus
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 441 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 168 (26.37%) ForeScout
3 37 (5.81%) Cisco
4 29 (4.55%) VMware
5 19 (2.98%) Adobe
6 18 (2.83%) Databricks
7 12 (1.88%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.88%) SAP
7 12 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.41%) Epicor
8 9 (1.41%) SolarWinds
8 9 (1.41%) Veeam
9 8 (1.26%) Apple
10 7 (1.10%) Aruba
10 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.94%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.94%) Dell
11 6 (0.94%) Meraki
11 6 (0.94%) Pega